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I assume your Christmas cake is our Fruit Cake. Danu Send a noteboard - 05/12/2011 01:25:07 AM
The wonderful Allie Brosh wrote a blog entry last year that I have just discovered (from a different blog) comparing cake to pie. Pie wins.

In point #5 she argues that pie has more usability over the year. And then has cake at Christmas being the lowest point for cakeyness. But this makes no sense! Christmas has a cake all of its very own! You make it months in advance and fill it with booze! How is this not wonderful?

Do Americans not do this?

No. Most Americans think of Fruit Cake as very heavy, something that you might get as a gift from some demented elderly relative and end up using as a door jam. Never homemade, comes in a tin. Nor do we have the tradition of having little trinkets in the cake that symbolize whatever..
It sounds like a fun tradition and if you can give me a recipe that doesn't call for nasty candied fruit I might actually making it.

And what kind of pie would you have at Christmas? }<img class=' />

Pumpkin, Pecan, or Chocolate Pecan.

Help me, RAFO. You're my only hope. Sad as that is. Well. Also untrue. I could ask Twitter but I think the Americans are sleeping and then the tweet will be lost in the mists of time before they get up whereas this post will sit here waiting for you.

My mom had a couple old fruit cake tins handed down to her from my grandma that were used to store stray buttons and pins and other small sewing related items. I wish I still had the one filled with buttons because some of them were from before my grandma was married to my grandpa and many were handmade.
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I am confused. Do Americans not do cake at Christmas? Rebekah - 04/12/2011 10:59:04 AM 1504 Views
chrimbo cake is the BEST! Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 11:41:28 AM 719 Views
Re: chrimbo cake is the BEST! ranagrande - 04/12/2011 11:48:56 AM 758 Views
Chicken pot pies are pretty great. beetnemesis - 04/12/2011 07:18:47 PM 697 Views
Most do not. ranagrande - 04/12/2011 11:46:09 AM 763 Views
Fruitcake Isaac - 04/12/2011 12:39:23 PM 839 Views
This Danu - 05/12/2011 01:38:49 AM 715 Views
Christmas Cake is divine. Stephen - 04/12/2011 02:03:44 PM 758 Views
My family's Christmas is Second Thansgiving, but with bonus desserts. Mostly pie, cookies, and candy *NM* Burr - 04/12/2011 03:00:51 PM 438 Views
Or rather... Fifth Thanksgiving. Thanksgivings 2, 3, and 4 are all about Thanksgiving 1 leftovers. *NM* Burr - 04/12/2011 03:02:42 PM 327 Views
No, generally we do not make cake for Christmas. *NM* Tom - 04/12/2011 04:41:05 PM 337 Views
Cake? nossy - 04/12/2011 05:03:02 PM 741 Views
We don't have a sheet of icing? Palatine - 04/12/2011 05:08:00 PM 722 Views
We have different icing. It is not typically a very dense, flat sheet of solid icing. Like fondant. nossy - 04/12/2011 07:46:41 PM 993 Views
That's just for Christmas cakes and wedding cakes, usually. Rebekah - 04/12/2011 07:58:55 PM 811 Views
Ah nossy - 04/12/2011 08:33:29 PM 712 Views
No. (with other responses) Palatine - 04/12/2011 05:03:51 PM 1026 Views
its a fruit cake with a layer of marzipan and a layer of icing on top Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 08:32:55 PM 816 Views
Plus with loads of brandy used to "feed" the cake over the month before you ice it. Rebekah - 04/12/2011 08:45:28 PM 716 Views
i put three teaspoons on each cake once a week Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 09:35:23 PM 705 Views
You make pretty cakes! *NM* Sareitha Sedai - 04/12/2011 11:53:16 PM 354 Views
thanks Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 11:58:40 PM 742 Views
Fruitcake is yummy Floffe - 05/12/2011 05:41:59 PM 652 Views
I dunno if they do cake, but Jason Biggs does pie. *NM* ironclad - 04/12/2011 05:18:22 PM 350 Views
Your boozecake intrigues me. Dannymac - 04/12/2011 06:01:14 PM 758 Views
Christmas cake? Jeez, how awkward ARE you people? Praziquantel - 04/12/2011 06:21:06 PM 759 Views
I hate Christmas cake Aviendha - 04/12/2011 06:35:49 PM 895 Views
Nope. My family has no Christmas-themed desserts. beetnemesis - 04/12/2011 07:17:38 PM 722 Views
Christmas cake is horrid. Morgawse - 04/12/2011 07:25:59 PM 919 Views
There are other birds which it's "acceptable" to eat at Christmas, other than turkey. Tim - 05/12/2011 10:02:20 AM 704 Views
Ah, maybe generally acceptable, but not to the outlaws. Morgawse - 05/12/2011 01:46:45 PM 846 Views
We do ham a lot Christmas random thoughts - 05/12/2011 01:01:03 PM 670 Views
Re: We do ham a lot Christmas Morgawse - 05/12/2011 01:45:53 PM 833 Views
me and my first wife did steaks for Christmas one year random thoughts - 05/12/2011 05:17:47 PM 654 Views
Fruitcake, I guess. But we don't coat it with disgusting icing. And it's not really cake. *NM* Ghavrel - 04/12/2011 10:12:21 PM 344 Views
Pie in November and December. Cake the rest of the year. TaskmasterJack - 04/12/2011 11:52:31 PM 760 Views
I assume your Christmas cake is our Fruit Cake. Danu - 05/12/2011 01:25:07 AM 728 Views
It is, as far as I can tell. Morgawse - 05/12/2011 01:55:40 PM 1054 Views
The icing looks so... thick. Avendesora - 05/12/2011 05:23:44 PM 746 Views
we do cake sometimes but not usually random thoughts - 05/12/2011 02:05:50 AM 686 Views
My family does... though Jacob - 05/12/2011 02:08:13 PM 775 Views
We typically have flan....with some vanilla ice cream. Jeordam - 05/12/2011 03:57:50 PM 748 Views
I adore flan... *NM* Larisa - 07/12/2011 10:50:00 PM 475 Views
No. We do cookie swaps and gingerbread houses. *edit* Avendesora - 05/12/2011 05:18:31 PM 764 Views
our family offerings are bread pudding and sugar cookies. The_Muted_Grimaud - 05/12/2011 05:25:01 PM 757 Views
I have no concept of a "Christmas" cake A Deathwatch Guard - 05/12/2011 08:15:30 PM 672 Views
Christmas Cake = yum yum ppig's bum. As are Fruit Mince Pies. And boiled pudding... and roast potato *NM* Two Wongs - 07/12/2011 01:50:28 AM 345 Views
Message from the Queen to Americains: 'Let Them Eat Cake!' *NM* Sports_Gambler - 07/12/2011 06:16:59 AM 310 Views
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